He continued to defend his actions, which he said were directed at "the face of a war criminal."

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

His comments reflected what other officials have said that ending the F-22 program is just one part of the effort to shift the focus of U.S.defenses away from what they see as the relatively remote possibility of a war with a major power and toward the types of smaller-scale conflicts of recent years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

Two days earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Germany as thousands of people remembered a different war the Cold War.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

During World War Two, Eugene McCarthy worked as a technical aide for a military intelligence office of the War Department.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

The Democratic Party chose for its presidential candidate a hero of the Civil War -- General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

And even though a great civil war was being fought, citizens of the North prepared to choose a leader.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

My father was a veteran of the Korean War, and it really represents the future and the past and present."

VOA: special.2009.11.14

Audrey Hepburn often said her loyalty to UNICEF was the result of her experiences as a child during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

They showed the faces of people in a land that still wore the mask of defeat in America's Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Clara Barton started her life as a nurse during the early days of the Civil War in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

President Franklin Roosevelt's wife Eleanor planted what was called a "Victory Garden" as part of the war effort in nineteen forty-three.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

But in the late sixties he went to report on the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

They found him guilty. And they sentenced him to remain in a Union military prison until the end of the war.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

The end of his first one reads like poetry as he appeals for unity in a country under threat of civil war.

VOA: special.2009.01.19